Find Balance and Serenity Through Yoga and Meditation
Embrace the journey of inner growth and development through workshops, private sessions and retreats
Fall Series Sept. 10 - Oct. 31, 2024
Moderate Yoga ~ Tues. 9:00-10:30 am Core Strength & Balance, as core strength reflects our resilience.
Gentle Yoga ~ Thurs. 10:00-11:30 am Slow Flow & Restorative Yoga. Focus on developing a home practice for ease of movement.
All classes include breath work and relaxation and are open to students of all fitness levels.
8 Sessions ~ $98 or $15 Drop-in ~ Private Session $85
What we are developing is a peace of mind that cannot be upset by anything. The Dalai Lama
Facets of the Heart ~ Postponed until required reading book is published, Awakening the Heart by Dr. Paul Dugliss Contact Marti if you are interested
Mondays 10:00-11:30 $295
This is a 12-Week Course of inner grow and development with Heart-based Meditation and heart-centering at its core. You will learn silent Heart-based Meditation as a daily practice. Each session will include a guided contemplation to help heal old patterns, habits and issues of the emotional heart. You will enjoy a new foundation of acceptance, harmony, joy, generosity, presence, gratitude, compassion, & forgiveness. Fill your life with more happiness and contentment through these aspects of the heart. Learn how we can heal physical, mental and emotional stresses and pain by deep inner listening to the heart’s desire. You will hold more love for what arises and experience more peace than you have imagined possible!
Heart-based Meditation Training ~ FREE ~ 1 hour/3-Weeks
Learn an effortless practice of going into deep, restful and restorative meditation. Release tension and stress and find more joy, love and happiness in your life. There is ongoing support in the Heart-based Meditation community with group meditations, retreats and mentoring. Contact Marti for an appointment for individual or group meditation training. Next 3-week training, Sept. 23, 2024 10:00-11:30am or 6:00-7:15 pm
What we are developing is a peace of mind that cannot be upset by anything. The Dalai Lama
Ayurvda Doshas ~ Vata - Pitta - Kapha ~
Mondays ~ January 13, 20 & 27, 2025 10:00-11:30am
Yoga At Ladaka
Understand your individual constitution and learn how to bring about balance and health. Ayurveda is about prevention of disease and maintaining good health. It offers remedies for imbalances and diminished health. In this workshop you will discover your individual dosha (natural mind/body constitution) and discuss steps to sleep well, digest well, and have energy throughout the day! Use Ayurvedic principles to improve wellness and create joy in life! Explore how things get out of balance and make gentle changes to shift into your natural balance and create radiate health. From an Ayurvedic perspective: notice how likes and dislikes, current state of state of mind, chronic challenges and life-style habits all influence your state of health. We look for disturbances in all aspect of the life. Too much of a good thing, or not enough, will bring us out of balance. Ayurveda brings us back to natural, radiant health.
Owner: Marti Jeffs
Hi, I'm Marti, owner and yoga teacher at Yoga at Ladaka. I have been teaching yoga since 2000, certified at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. While a massage therapist for 30 years, I studied Ayurveda, Heart-based Meditation and Vedic Psychology at New World School of Ayurveda (2008-2013) and recently completed a Spiritual Mentoring program with Dr. Paul Dugliss, director and academic Dean at New World Ayurveda. I offer Yoga, Ayurveda Health consultations, workshops, meditation retreats and Spiritual Mentoring, based on Vedic Psychology. I am passionate about sharing these practices that support inner growth and development. As a Wellness Coach, I combine years of education and experience to guide clients toward vibrant health, happiness and peace of mind. My yoga classes reflect an emphasis on the meaning of yoga ~ union of self with divine consciousness ~ building inner awareness and upliftment. When I'm not teaching or working with clients, I enjoy traveling with my husband, Steve, and visiting our son and family in Chapel Hill, NC; I love to hike in the woods, walk the beaches of Lake Michigan, bike, kayak, swim, chant kirtan and practice my harmonium. Steve and I grew up in Frankfort, enjoyed living in Flint for 30 years and now are loving the beautiful north country, close to extended family and old friends.
Our History
The property of Ladaka was a dairy farm in the early 1900’s. In 1980, Jackie Thompson purchased the abandoned property, restored the dairy barn for her Arabian horses and built a two-story home attached to the barn. She named the farm “Ladaka,” after the mountain region in the Himalayas bordering India and Tibet, which she learned about from the book, The Lost Horizon, featuring the peaceful Buddhist people of Tibet and their tranquil, harmonious way of life. In 2005, Jackie’s son, Steve and his wife, Marti acquired the 75-acre farm, and in 2008 transformed the horse stalls into a yoga studio and decided to keep the name Ladaka, as it holds the same intention for them: peace, harmony, gratitude and wholeness.